In Hong Kong, we have just started with a baby step. People organize a public event to urge government to build a cycle path along HK island, the main city of HK.http://www.facebook.com/?sk=ff&ap=1#!/event.php?eid=170931052941886

Most people only take cycling as a leisure activity. People who ride everyday are the delivery boys. So it limits to certain group of people.

I have also started to commute by bike now. And have shared in my blog:http://i-brompton.blogspot.comI am not a Brompton fanatic.But why Brompton? First of all only foldable bike allowed to bring inside bus/train in HK. And, Brompton is small, compact, easy to move inside train station. I can put it on one side of escalator without disturbing others who are rushing to the train.

Oh dear. Imagine it is bluidy cold as well (folks, the Prairies are just a BIT warmer than Siberia) unless you have the Chinook. I've never been to Calgary - been once to Edmonton, but flew in, interpreted at conference, flew out. Actually that perfectly describeds my knowledge of Copenhagen, though I'd actually love to return to Copenhagen, and cycle there.

Here in Montréal all the snow has melted, but today it was slightly below freezing, so one of my brakes almost failed. (the back one - the more important) almost failed due to the slightly sub-freezing temps. I am no daredevil, and wound up walking bicycle home. There is a bicycle shop on my way, and I would have asked them, but they were closed (they don't shut down in the winter, but they are open less regular hours).

I googled bicycle brakes winter, but all they had to say was to extol the superior performance of the disc brakes on certain new, high-performance bicycles. My Raleigh Sprite, Miep, is certainly a trusty steed, but she isn't either new or high-performance, no should she be.

lagatta à montréal, you have a little water in your rear brake cable housing. With the cable routing on a ladies frame that is pretty common (water runs down the exposed cable on the down tube, gets into the housing and settles at the lowest point). It would be a cheap fix, but a free short term solution would be to bring the bike in one night to where it is warm and leave leaned up in a corner standing on its front wheel with its rear wheel high in the air. Any frozen water should drip out of the elbow. Then grease up the cable on the down tube right where it enters the cable housing, to help prevent it from happening again. Use lube, NOT WD-40.

P.S. I just bought a Raleigh Sprite 2 days ago. So excited about restoring it.

Thanks, Adam. It is just a bit below freezing here (balmy next to Calgary) and just a dusting of snow, so of course I want to ride my bicycle. But with brakes - I'm not into that brakeless "fixie" stuff!

By "lube", you mean bicycle oil? But will that penetrate the cable housing?

Kilometres cycled by Copenhageners so far today

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40 years ago Copenhagen was just as car-clogged as anywhere else but now 41% of the population arriving at work or education do so on bicycles, from all over the Metro area. 55% of Copenhageners themselves use bicycles each day. They all use over 1000 km of bicycle lanes in Greater Copenhagen for their journeys. Copenhagenizing is possible anywhere.